A Ransomware Gang Just Ran an Entire Attack Without a Human at the Keyboard
Sysdig researchers documented JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous AI-agent-driven ransomware attack on record — reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, and…
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Tether Still Wins on Size. Circle’s USDC Is Winning on Every Transaction That Matters.
Tether's USDT still dwarfs Circle's USDC in total market capitalization, but USDC now processes roughly triple the transaction volume, a…
The US Doesn’t Have Enough People to Build the Chip Plants It Just Funded
A Bloomberg analysis published July 7 warns that a shortage of skilled workers, projected to hit 157,000 by 2030, threatens…
A College Startup Wants Frontline Soldiers to Shoot Down Drones By Hand. The Pentagon Is Already Buying.
Atlanta startup Askari Defense, born out of a Georgia Tech student accelerator, is building hand-launched interceptor drones for frontline soldiers…
US Fintech Funding Just Had Its Best Quarter in Over a Year. Wealthtech Missed the Memo.
US fintech raised $16 billion across 445 deals in Q2 2026, its strongest quarter in over a year, but nearly…
Wall Street Finally Figured Out What to Do With Tokenized Treasuries: Use Them as Collateral
Tokenized real-world assets crossed $31 billion on-chain in 2026 as BlackRock, Standard Chartered, and OKX built a framework letting institutions…
GoTyme’s Owners Just Wrote Another Check. What the Math Behind It Says About Digital Banking’s Real Cost.
GoTyme's parent companies injected another $13.9 million into the digital bank in July 2026, the second capital top-up in as…
Singapore’s Central Bank Just Set the Rules for Letting AI Agents Touch Real Money
MAS and a group of banks and fintechs published SAFR, a framework governing how AI agents get authorized to actually…
Tesla Skipped the Training Wheels in Miami. No Safety Driver, No Lidar, No Pre-Mapped Roads.
Tesla launched a fully unsupervised robotaxi service in Miami on July 3 with no safety driver from day one, betting…
The Philippine Senate Wants to Cap What Remittance Companies Can Charge OFWs
Senate Bill 1917, the proposed OFWs Remittance Protection Act, would let regulators set actual allowable fee ranges for remittance providers…
Discord Filed for an IPO in January. By July It Was Worth Less Than Microsoft Once Offered to Pay for It.
Discord's confidential IPO filing has stalled at an implied $8.5 billion secondary-market valuation, below the $12 billion Microsoft offered to…
Google Lost Its Last Appeal on a $4.7 Billion EU Fine. Trump Is Threatening to Make Europe Pay For It Anyway.
Europe's top court upheld a 4.1 billion euro antitrust fine against Google's Android business on July 2, the latest flashpoint…